Swine Flu World Map

April 30th, 2009 sargel18

Cool.

http://www.swinefluworldmap.com/

Swine Flu Cases Spread Across U.S., Though Only One Death Confirmed

April 29th, 2009 sargel18

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518426,00.html

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The swine flu outbreak continued to fan out across the United States on Wednesday, with confirmed cases now in 11 states and possible cases in several more — though American deaths haven’t become widespread despite the confirmation that a Mexican toddler who was visiting Texas with his family had died from the flu.

In California, dozens of Marines were confined after one came down with the disease. Some 100 schools were closed, and more might need to be shut down temporarily.

President Barack Obama pledged “great vigilance” in dealing with the situation as the total confirmed cases in the U.S. rose to nearly 100, with many more suspected.

The Geneva-based World Health Organization sounded its own ominous alarm, raising its alert level to one notch below a full-fledged global pandemic. Said WHO Director General Margaret Chan: “It really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”

Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there were confirmed cases in 10 states, including 51 in New York, 16 in Texas and 14 in California. The CDC also counted scattered cases in Kansas, Massachusetts , Michigan, Arizona, Indiana, Nevada and Ohio.

State officials in Maine said laboratory tests had confirmed three cases in that state, not yet included in the CDC count.

Computer Scientists Work on Adding Smell to Games

April 29th, 2009 sargel18

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518403,00.html

Professor Bob Stone loves the smell of napalm in the morning.

He’s less keen on raw sewage, burning vegetation and diesel exhaust, but at the click of a mouse any and all can be wafting through his office at Birmingham University.

It’s just one of the techniques the computer scientist is using to make video games more realistic. Stone is helping to develop technology likely to end up in home games consoles to create realistic “smell effects.”

Players will experience the odors of, say, the racetrack or the battlefield. His research also has a more immediate goal: to train future recruits to the British military.

Stone, a member of the university’s school of engineering, is being part-funded by the Ministry of Defense to build, as he puts it, “serious” games.

Jesus vs. Mohammed? Video Game Upsets Islamic Group

April 28th, 2009 sargel18

What, I want it! Go JC !!!!

CAIRO  —  An influential Islamic group branded an online video game depicting religious figures fighting each other as offensive to Muslims and Christians and successfully demanded Tuesday that it be taken offline.

In the game “Faith Fighter,” caricatures of Jesus, the Prophet Muhammad, Buddha, God and the Hindu god Ganesh fight each other against a backdrop of burning buildings.

God attacks with bolts of lighting and pillars of fire while the turbaned Muhammad can summon a burning black meteorite.

The Saudi-based Organization of the Islamic Conference, which represents most Muslim nations, said it should be removed from the Internet.

More:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518228,00.html

Last Weeks Post: The dark Man is Here!

April 27th, 2009 sargel18

Last week as  was putting up a story, I heard in my head from my Divine contacts “The Dark Man is here!”. This is from the 1994 movie “The Stand” by Stephen King where the world is wiped out by a super flu in 2 weeks.

That was April 17th (go back and check my blog), 8 days before they broke the news about the Swine Flu.

Sometime I never know at the time why they say certain things.

Watch The Movie:

Swine Flu: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Outbreak

April 27th, 2009 sargel18

Reporting from Los Angeles and Mexico City — International officials Saturday declared the swine flu outbreak in Mexico and the U.S. a “public health emergency” as new cases were reported on both sides of the border and fears grew of a possible global epidemic.

The Mexican government indicated that the outbreak was more severe than originally acknowledged, announcing that more than 1,300 people are believed to have been infected. The virus, which the World Health Organization’s top official said had “pandemic potential,” is now suspected in the deaths of 81 Mexicans, Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said.

Also Saturday, the Mexican government gave itself extraordinary powers to quarantine and forcibly treat infected people and to search homes and intercept suspected flu sufferers on public transport.

The emergency decree follows measures that have included the closing of schools in the worst-affected areas until May 6, and the temporary shutdown of museums, clubs and theaters in Mexico City. Hundreds of concerts, private parties and other events were canceled as federal and local officials urged people to avoid large gatherings.

In the United States, a new swine flu case was discovered Saturday in California and two in Kansas, bringing to 11 the number of confirmed incidents of the disease north of the border. All patients have recovered. Eight schoolchildren in New York City are suspected to have a form of swine flu.

At the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Dr. Anne Schuchat said the agency expected more cases and that containment was “not feasible.”

More:

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-fg-mexico-swineflu26-2009apr26,0,389929.story

Health Officials Confirm Swine Flu Cases in New York

April 26th, 2009 sargel18

oh shit, another prediction coming true.


NEW YORK  —  Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that students at a New York high school were infected with swine flu.

New York officials previously had said they were eight “probable” cases, but tests later confirmed that it was indeed swine flu. Bloomberg stressed that the cases were mild and many are recovering.

The city is awaiting the tests of additional samples to see if more students were infected.

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New York health officials said more than 100 students at the St. Francis Preparatory School, in Queens, recently began suffering a fever, sore throat and aches and pains. Some of their relatives also have been ill.

Some students recently went to Cancun on a spring break two weeks ago.

Workers were sanitizing the school as a precaution. But a class reunion featuring cocktails, dinner and dancing for hundreds of alumni from as far back as 1939 went on as scheduled Saturday.

The school will be closed Monday.

Symptoms in the New York cases have been mild, said New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden. But the illnesses have caused concern because of the outbreak in Mexico, where health officials say a strain of swine flu has killed up to 81 people and sickened more than 1,000.

More:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517958,00.html